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Language education at all levels benefits from research in a
multitude of ways. Conversely, educational practices and
experiences offer fertile ground for research into language
learning, teaching and assessment. This book views research in
language education as a reciprocal venture that should benefit all
participants equally. Practice is shaped by theory, which in turn
is illuminated and refined by practice. The book brings together
studies from different fields of language education in nine
countries on four continents: Cameroon, Canada, Finland, India,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Sweden. The authors report on
research that depends on the active involvement of teachers,
teacher educators and learners of different ages and various
backgrounds. The book focuses on projects designed to address
challenges in the classroom and on the role of learners as
collaborative agents in the research process as well as
collaborative research in professional development and the role of
collaborative research in the development of national policy.
This volume contains a collection of papers that deal with Romance
linguistics from two broad perspectives: multilingualism and
language acquisition. Some of the contributions investigate these
phenomena in the light of language contact, language attitudes and
code switching in multilingual societies or multilingual families.
Others focus on the acquisition of rhythmic patterns, intonation or
even emotions in a second language. Many of the contributions
present themes related to oral production or speech. The book in
itself is multilingual and includes papers written in Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish and English.
This book is intended for researchers and students in the field of
second language (L2) acquisition. As its title suggests, the book
discusses L2 vocabulary acquisition, knowledge and use, and
examines them from the perspectives of assessment and corpus
analysis. The chapters also address some additional central
research issues: the role of word frequency in the input, the
difference between single words and multiword units, and the
distinction between vocabulary of oral and written language. The
first three chapters of the book present critical reviews of
different aspects of vocabulary acquisition. The other four
chapters contain empirical studies that relate to the central
themes of the book. The data in the studies draw on a variety of
source and target languages: English, French, Italian, Swedish,
Hebrew and Japanese. The book offers some new insights into the
field of vocabulary and suggests avenues of research.
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